specs and implementations (Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14)

2008-03-21 Thread Kevin Turner
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 09:38 -0700, Will Norris wrote: Regardless of what specific spec addition we're talking about, I don't think the technical difficulty to implement it should ever be a determining factor in weighing the merit of the proposal. I disagree here. We don't write specs just so

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-20 Thread Noah Slater
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:42:45PM +1100, Manger, James H wrote: Perhaps I will add a note to the OpenID 2.0 errata page stating HTTP 303 See Other semantics are not currently supported so they should be avoided when hosting OpenIDs. Thank you for your enlightened response, a lot of that makes

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread Johnny Bufu
On 19-Mar-08, at 2:51 AM, Noah Slater wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:54:20PM -0700, Kevin Turner wrote: A request for an OpenID Identifier SHALL NOT issue a 303 response. This is even worse and also backwards incompatible. All the OpenIDs that currently use 303 redirects, including

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-19 Thread Kevin Turner
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 23:54 +0900, James Henstridge wrote: The fact that some sites incorrectly resolved the redirect to /about/ is probably due to the non-standard response headers for http://bytesexual.org/ -- it contains a relative URI reference in the location header, while the spec

Re: Problems with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14

2008-03-04 Thread Noah Slater
Hello again, Firstly, sorry for the double post, the OpenID.net homepage does not clearly indicate that specs@openid.net is a mailing list. However, it has come to my attention that the mailing list software has truncated my message http://openid.net/pipermail/general/2008-March/004217.html